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... less of spiritual , existence . We are accustomed to contemplate man as an object of sight , and to convince ourselves of his actual presence , by feeling resistance from the solidity of his external form ; yet we ought not hence to ...
... less of spiritual , existence . We are accustomed to contemplate man as an object of sight , and to convince ourselves of his actual presence , by feeling resistance from the solidity of his external form ; yet we ought not hence to ...
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... less substantial parts of our body are annihilated by death ? Here again science steps in , and tells us , that they are not ; that they are decomposed indeed by death , but not annihilated . They lose their solidity and union of parts ...
... less substantial parts of our body are annihilated by death ? Here again science steps in , and tells us , that they are not ; that they are decomposed indeed by death , but not annihilated . They lose their solidity and union of parts ...
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... less , affect the soul , and that , according to an old maxim , expressive of true enjoyment , there should be Mens sana in corpore sano , is it in the slightest degree probable , that the soul should be only during this life in a sound ...
... less , affect the soul , and that , according to an old maxim , expressive of true enjoyment , there should be Mens sana in corpore sano , is it in the slightest degree probable , that the soul should be only during this life in a sound ...
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... less than ten years , might enjoy , to all practical purposes , a longer life than the tortoise , which lives more ... less distinct , and consequently less efficient , the impressions , perceptions , and emotions of the mind , than the ...
... less than ten years , might enjoy , to all practical purposes , a longer life than the tortoise , which lives more ... less distinct , and consequently less efficient , the impressions , perceptions , and emotions of the mind , than the ...
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... less than the smallest grain of dust , may be exempted from the general decay ; may be , however minute , very curiously organ- ized ( for great and small are only comparative ) ; may be the really essential part of the body , so as to ...
... less than the smallest grain of dust , may be exempted from the general decay ; may be , however minute , very curiously organ- ized ( for great and small are only comparative ) ; may be the really essential part of the body , so as to ...
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alluded altogether annihilated Apostles appears Arabic Arabic versions autem awake believe the soul Bishop Law Bishop of Carlisle Book of Ezra brain cease at death cerebellum chap Christ conceive creed Crellius dead decomposition departed spirits distinct dreams essential particles Ethiopic etiam evocatis express extinction extinguished eyes faculties former Gehenna germ grave Greek Hades hereafter impressions insensibility intellect Jesus Jews lapse Lord Luke lying material materialist Matthew metonymically mind mortui Moses never notion Old Testament opinion Paradise participle passage perceive perception perhaps some thousands period personal identity Pharisees power of thinking Priestley proof prove Psalm putrefaction quæ reasoning remarked rendered resurrection Sadducees Samuel Saviour Scripture seems sense sensible separate existence Septuagint Sheol signifies sleep Socinian solid soul after death soul and body soul sleeps substance sunt supposed tense thee thing thou tion translated unconscious unto verb verses visible vitam Vulgate writers xvii
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Page 70 - How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee : 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 64 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 71 - Vital spark of heavenly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away.
Page 40 - These things said He: and after that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Page 14 - Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept ! And such is Man : soon from his cell of clay To burst a Seraph in the blaze of day ! HYMN FOR JUNE.
Page 68 - But has it not been shown to them, that, when to the receptacle of the dead their souls shall be made to descend, their evil deeds shall become their greatest torment? Into darkness, into the snare, and into the flame, which shall burn to the great judgment, shall their spirits enter; and the great judgment shall take effect for ever and for ever. 6 Woe to you; for to you there shall be no peace.
Page 33 - ... or affirm that the souls die with the bodies, and at the last day shall be raised up with the same, do utterly dissent from the right belief declared unto us in Holy Scripture.
Page 13 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with silent...
Page 63 - In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: for like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
Page 52 - And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.